EP 1551301 B1 20130807 - SYMMETRICAL MULTIPLE-SLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DATA MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
Title (en)
SYMMETRICAL MULTIPLE-SLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DATA MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
Title (de)
SYMMETRISCHES VIELSCHICHT-COMPUTERTOMOGRAPHIE-MESSDATENSYSTEM
Title (fr)
SYSTEME DE MESURE DE DONNEES TOMODENSITOMETRIQUES MULTICOUPES SYMETRIQUES
Publication
Application
Priority
- IB 0304238 W 20030922
- US 26423802 A 20021003
Abstract (en)
[origin: US2004065465A1] A data measurement system (DMS) (30) for a computed tomography (CT) scanner (12) includes a plurality of connectorized detector sub-array modules (32). Each detector sub-array module (32) includes: a scintillator (40) that produces scintillation events responsive to irradiation by x-rays; a photodetector array (42) arranged to detect the scintillations; and two symmetrically arranged signal connectors (541, 542) that transmit the photodetector signals. Symmetrically mounted pipeline cards (60) mate with the signal connectors (54) of each side of groups of the detector sub-array modules (32) to receive the photodetector signals. A processor (64) communicating with the pipeline cards (60) receives the photodetector signals from the pipeline cards (60) and constructs a DMS output from the photodetector signals.
IPC 8 full level
A61B 6/03 (2006.01); G01T 1/164 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
A61B 6/032 (2013.01 - EP US); A61B 6/4085 (2013.01 - EP US); G01T 1/1647 (2013.01 - EP US); A61B 6/027 (2013.01 - EP US)
Citation (examination)
- WO 0187140 A2 20011122 - CROSETTO DARIO B [US]
- WO 9918854 A1 19990422 - ANALOGIC CORP [US]
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PT RO SE SI SK TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
US 2004065465 A1 20040408; US 6917664 B2 20050712; AU 2003260932 A1 20040423; CN 100500096 C 20090617; CN 1688253 A 20051026; EP 1551301 A1 20050713; EP 1551301 B1 20130807; JP 2006501009 A 20060112; JP 4384984 B2 20091216; WO 2004030543 A1 20040415
DOCDB simple family (application)
US 26423802 A 20021003; AU 2003260932 A 20030922; CN 03823607 A 20030922; EP 03799025 A 20030922; IB 0304238 W 20030922; JP 2004541073 A 20030922